PARQUE PACHACAMAC PARK

CONCURSO / COMPETITION ENTRY

PACHACAMAC, PERU, 2019

MONUMENTAL and QUOTIDIAN: SENSIBLE GEOMETRIES 

The Santuario de Pachacamac survives within the contraction of the present history. Temples and pyramids of religious and cultural practice lay embraced by a devastated ‘natural’ landscape victimized by urban forcefulness. This project proposes a system constituted by a sequence of triangulated areas framed within a monumental yet incomplete square; a liminal dry-port to the desert. It offers protection to the site, while creating a new network of “monuments-moments.” Triangle and square are shapes which carry universal meanings, like perfectness, unity, importance, and change. Here, the triangle becomes the organizing element, presented in a sequence of connected terraces, programmed according to the specific character of each side of the great Santuario de Pachacamac plain. Triangle and square resonate as well as metaphors or poetic figure belonging in meaningful pre-Hispanic sites and ‘things’.